Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Promise

By: Jonathan Alter

Narrated by: Jonathan Alter

Length: 20 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the... Read more

The Imam's Daughter

By: Hannah Shah

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly.For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At sixteen, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she gathered the... Read more

Nomad

By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced adapting to Western society as Muslim immigrants.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent... Read more

Somewhere Inside

By: Laura Ling & Lisa Ling

Narrated by: Laura Ling & Lisa Ling

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first ever trial of an American citizen in North Korea’s highest court carries... Read more

Rough Justice

By: Peter Elkind

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With a combination of talent, hard work, connections, and family wealth, Eliot Spitzer built an amazing career. By his late forties, he'd gone from Princeton to Harvard Law to dramatic success as a prosecutor and attorney general to the governorship of New York. Many thought he would become the first Jewish president of the United States. Then... Read more

Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go

By: Lucille O'Neal

Narrated by: LaTasha Ezell

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“In Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go Lucille will take you on a 40-year journey from ‘mental welfare to mental wealth.’ You will laugh—you may cry—and in the process you will be encouraged, enlightened, and empowered.”—Paula White, author of Dare to Dream: See Yourself as God Sees You As the mother of one of the greatest athletes of all time,... Read more

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

By: Jennifer Steil

Narrated by: Jennifer Steil

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Restless in her career and her life in general, Jennifer Steil, a gregarious, liberal New Yorker, initially accepts a short-term opportunity to teach a journalism class to the staff of the Yemen Observer in Sana'a, the beautiful, old, and very conservative capital of Yemen.



Seduced by the eager reporters and the enticing prospect of spreading... Read more

Gonville

By: Peter Birkenhead

Narrated by: Peter Birkenhead

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A frequent contributor to such high-profile publications as GQ and the Los Angeles Times, Peter Birkenhead is perhaps best known for his widely read essays and cultural musings on Salon.com. In Gonville, Birkenhead wields his cuts-to-the-bone prose in a memoir focusing largely on a father who is at once a magnetic personality and a violent,... Read more

Moment of Glory

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players -- Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and Shaun Micheel -- would seize the day, rising to become champions in his wake.

Mike Weir -- considered a good golfer but not a great one -- triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian... Read more

The Last Hero

By: Howard Bryant

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 21 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his... Read more

Never Tell Our Business to Strangers

By: Jennifer Mascia

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jennifer Mascia is five years old, the FBI comes for her father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn't exactly normal. What follows are months of confusion marked by visits with her father through thick glass, talking to him over a telephone attached to the wall. She and her mother crisscross the country, from California to... Read more

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

By: Kai Bird

Narrated by: Joe Caron

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s vivid memoir of a childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia, and his personal account of three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East. Read more

WAR

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat--the fear, the honor, and the... Read more

No Wonder My Parents Drank

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

YOU’LL NEVER SLEEP IN THIS TOWN AGAIN

From Saturday Night Live to stand-up, from a blockbuster film career to the star of CBS’s hit television show Gary Unmarried, Jay Mohr is one of the funniest people in comedy today. Now, in this down and dirty tale of modern fatherhood, Mohr shares his stories as a first-time parent.

No Wonder My Parents Drank... Read more

Steinbrenner

By: Bill Madden

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

No owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. From the moment he bought the team in 1973 for $10 million, Steinbrenner's monomaniacal pursuit was to restore the most fabled franchise in baseball history to its former glory. Today the New York Yankees are worth more than $1 billion and are once... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Lee Kravitz

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing his job, Lee Kravitz, a workaholic in his midfifties, took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he had become from the people who mattered most to him. He committed an entire year to reconnecting with them and making amends.



Kravitz takes listeners on ten transformational journeys, among them repaying a... Read more

The Last Hero - Abridged

By: Howard Bryant

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his... Read more

The Men Who Would Be King

By: Nicole LaPorte

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged.Then came Hollywood's Circus Maximus—created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King—an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety,... Read more

Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the West - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: McAvoy Layne

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one man performance based on Twain's writings. The early years of Samuel Clemens, the Mississippi River experiences, and his move to the silver mining area of Nevada are portrayed by exuberant actor McAvoy Layne. Some of the most famous tales, from The Blue Jay Yarn... Read more

An Eagle Named Freedom

By: Jeff Guidry

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Sarvey Wildlife Care Center volunteer Jeff Guidry saw the emaciated baby eagle with broken wings, his life was changed. For weeks he and the center's staff tended to the grievously injured bird. Miraculously, she recovered, and Jeff became her devoted caretaker.



Though Freedom would never fly, she had Jeff as her wings. And when... Read more

Tiger

By: Steve Helling

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

He was born to a father who described him as the "chosen one," a boy who would grow into a man with the power to impact nations. His mother called him the "universal child," blessed with the ability to hold the races together. Choosing the unlikely avenue of golf, they groomed their son for the fame and influence that they always believed was... Read more

My Fair Lazy

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on.

Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration... Read more

Triumph

By: Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and inspirational true story of one woman’s life after fleeing the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey—from the New York Times bestselling author of Escape
 
“Triumph is thoughtful, intelligent, and engaging.”—Meg Wolitzer, bestselling author of The Interestings
 
In 2003, Carolyn Jessop, a... Read more

The Price of Freedom

By: Alex Domokos

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The price of this man’s freedom included the traumatic separation from his baby daughter. Alex Domokos wrote this memoir of his years during and after World War II with two purposes in mind: to allow his daughter a glimpse into his past, and to enlighten others about the tragedy of his homeland, Hungary.The sufferings that plagued the Hungarian... Read more